Mertixell Matas, who was a PhD fellow at ADHUC-Centre de recerca Teoria, Gènere, Sexualitat, has received the Badia i Margarit Prize for theses written in Catalan for ‘’Al límit de la pell hi ha la metàfora‘: un estudi de les poetes catalanes del segle XXI’, co-directed by Francesco Ardolino (Universitat de Barcelona) and Helena González Fernández (ADHUC-Universitat de Barcelona). Matas was also in charge of giving a speech of thanks on behalf of the award winners in this fourth edition.